3 Year, funded PhD Evidence synthesis methods for 21st-century chemical risk assessment Assessing risks to health posed by chemical substances to human health and the environment requires careful scrutiny of toxicology, epidemiology and chemical fate & behaviour studies. The problem is, current methods for gathering and appraising this evidence result in important studies being missed, […]
From RetractionWatch: John Ioannidis, a professor at Stanford University and one of the most highly cited researchers in the world, has come up with some startling figures about meta-analyses. His new paper, published today in Milbank Quarterly (accompanied by this commentary), suggests that the number of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in literature have each increased by more than 2500% […]
We have responded to a consultation by the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on the EU Commission’s proposed criteria for identification of endocrine disrupting chemicals. These comments reiterate much of what we said in a letter to the EU Health Commissioner which we recently co-authored, and our response to the EU’s public consultation on their […]